Grant County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Grant County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Grant County spend about 23 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 95 hours, about 4.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 34% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 5.8 minutes.

Grant County holds about 0.2% of Kansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Grant County would save about 38 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,182 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Grant County	11.4 min	22.9 min	95 hrs/yr	$2,955	299
Kansas	17.2 min	34.4 min	143 hrs/yr	$4,448	662
United States	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

Commute Time Map: Kansas Counties

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On average, it takes 11.4 minutes to get to work in Grant County. That's 49% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Grant County

• Car: 90.8%
• Worked at Home: 6.1%
• Walked: 2.5%
• Other: 0.6%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Grant County, versus 0.1% in Kansas.

Public transit is essentially absent in Grant County, versus 0.4% in Kansas.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Grant County, versus 0.2% in Kansas.

Biking is unusually rare in Grant County: 119144663.0 times less than the Kansas average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Grant County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Grant County get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.1%	3.9%	2.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%
2010	92.7%	4.2%	1.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%
2011	91.5%	4.6%	2.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2012	92.0%	4.8%	1.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	91.7%	5.3%	2.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	90.3%	5.9%	3.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	90.4%	5.1%	3.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	89.8%	7.2%	2.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	88.8%	7.1%	3.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	88.8%	6.9%	3.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.1%	6.5%	1.5%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.1%	7.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.1%	4.0%	1.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.6%	5.5%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.2%	4.3%	1.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.8%	6.1%	2.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2021 at 94.1% and lowest in 2017 at 88.8%. Overall it fell from 92.1% in 2009 to 90.8% in 2024, down 1.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Grant County: its share of workers rose from 3.9% in 2009 to 6.1% in 2024, up 2.2 percentage points.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 7.2% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 6.1%.

Commute Start Times in Grant County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Grant County?

The bars show when commuters in Grant County leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show Kansas for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Grant County11.9% Kansas4.7%	11.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Grant County2.2% Kansas3.5%	2.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Grant County3.7% Kansas5.2%	3.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Grant County18.3% Kansas7.6%	18.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Grant County8.7% Kansas10.3%	8.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Grant County11.3% Kansas14.9%	11.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Grant County11.9% Kansas16.8%	11.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Grant County19.7% Kansas10.4%	19.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Grant County1.1% Kansas4.5%	1.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Grant County4.9% Kansas5.0%	4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Grant County0.3% Kansas2.5%	0.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Grant County0.0% Kansas1.1%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Grant County1.7% Kansas7.0%	1.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Grant County4.3% Kansas6.6%	4.3%

Grant County Kansas Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Grant County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 19.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.4% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 17.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Kansas's: 51.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (11.2%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Grant County, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Grant County Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Grant County next to Kansas and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

• Grant County
• Kansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Grant County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:22 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Grant County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:21 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Grant County now leave 24 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Grant County has moved 17 minutes earlier.

How does Grant County's commute time compare?

Metric	Grant County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.4 min	17.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.1%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	2.5%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Grant County is 11.4 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 2.5% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau